Hybrid Senior IT Project Manager

at AVEVA

• Job title: Senior IT Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior IT Project Manager overseeing IT infrastructure projects for AVEVA, a leader in industrial software solutions, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery.

Responsibilities

• Analyse project proposals to identify time frame, funding limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
• Provide guidance and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline work plan.
• Establish work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• Implement project communication plan.
• Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans.
• Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality and integrity of the information, while providing consistency in content and “look and feel” across the enterprise.
• Ensure that project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives.
• Assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority to project personnel.
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure that the project progresses on schedule and within budget.
• Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
• Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
• Continuously benchmark project management performance to identify improvements and achieve higher capability maturity in project and portfolio management.
• Establish good working relationships with external service providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent IT related experience desirable.
• Experience of Real Estate Infrastructure / Office relocations / openings
• Several years of IT experience, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving
• Experience of execution of multiple IT projects or a large IT project.
• Demonstrated experience in managing a project team
• Demonstrated experience and ability in successfully using people skills.
• Ability to supervise and motivate others; demonstrating empathy and knowledge of personality types
• Familiar with project management methodologies (for example, PMI, Prince II and Agile)
• Demonstrated sensitivity to working in a political environment and to interacting with senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of project-planning tools
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations
• Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills, because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources
• Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises are employing them to drive digital business
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a project resource plan that ensures that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right time.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits fund
• emergency leave days
• adoption leave
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• pension
• life cover
• private medical insurance
• parental leave
• education assistance program.